With my head still spinning from the experienced of eating out my sister-in-law, I went to check on the kids. They were sound asleep. I went and checked the back yard through the garage door exit and notice a huge limb had fallen from an old oak tree in the back yard. The limb had taken out the power line going to the house. Nothing I could do about that. So I went back inside and lit some candles. My brother-in-law was not much of a handy man around the house so there wasn't a generator or even kerosene lambs anywhere. I happened to think about it and had brought two kerosene lambs with me. I went to the truck and grabbed them and brought them in. It was getting wicked outside and I knew that I would not be going back out there much more until the storm passed.
I lit the lambs and placed one in the family room and I walked the other back to master bedroom where I had left my sister-in-law a few minutes earlier. I walked in and she was lying on the bed. She stirred and looked at me. I told her I was going to leave the lamp there for her to use if she needed to get out up for anything. I warned her that she would probably be better off in the central part of the house than in the bedroom facing the west because the storm was coming from that direction. She said she would move in a few minutes. I said fine.
I went back to the family room and I figured there was nothing more to do right then than to ride out the storm. I had brought a battery operated radio so I got it out and tuned into the weather station and listen for the advisories. I had picked up a sheet from the hall closet and placed on the couch. Not that I would need it for long because it was going to get hot without air conditioning. In fact, it was already getting warm. So I peeled my work boats off and my jeans and laid back on the couch with my boxers on with a sheet covering just my mid-section. It didn't take long. I was fast asleep. Something about the sound of rain and wind and my tired bones that made me drowsy.
